Locum Childcare Solicitor

Sellick Partnership (Legal) Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A legal recruitment firm is looking for a locum Childcare Lawyer to join a busy and friendly team within Manchester City Council. The position requires experience in local authority work. The successful candidate will build client relations, provide legal advice, analyze complex information, and demonstrate strong communication and advocacy skills. This role offers a supportive work environment, promoting inclusivity and accessibility in recruitment.

Qualifications

• Ideally have previous experience working within a local authority.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain excellent client relations.
• Provide timely, high quality legal advice.
• Interpret complex information to identify legal issues.
• Communicate complex legal advice clearly.
• Demonstrate exceptional advocacy skills.

Skills

Client relations

Legal advice provision

Analytical skills

Advocacy skills

Job description

Are you a Childcare Lawyer seeking a locum role within a busy and friendly team?

We are working closely with Manchester City Council to recruit a locum Childcare Lawyer to join their skilled and long-established team.

The successful candidate will ideally have previous experience working within a local authority.

Key Role Accountabilities

• Build and maintain excellent client relations acting as a role model to achieve service and council wide objectives
• Providing timely, high quality and accurate legal, tactical and strategic advice.
• Use advanced analytical skills to interpret complex information to identify legal issues, risk and other implications for clients
• To communicate both verbally and in writing to a consistently high standard with the ability to translate and present complex legal advice in a way that can be clearly understood by a variety of audiences
• Where appropriate, to demonstrate exceptional advocacy skills achieving the best possible outcomes for the client

Should you require further information or wish to discuss your suitability before applying please contact Emily Hawksworth in our Manchester office for a confidential discussion.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.